The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1926, Page 4

pnp ¥ | | Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Organization Meetings Workers (Communist) Party | ocial Affairs A ameievaioain Our Tasks in the Trade Unions By TOM BELL. AST August the Communist Inter- national in a letter to our party stated that in an industrial country like the United States no one could be a Communist unless they at the same time also belonged to a labor union, The fact that the C. BE. C. is now conducting a campaign to get all party members into trade unions shows the determination of the party leadership to follow the advice of the Communist International on this matter, As far back as the second congress of the question of Communists participating in reactionary trade unions was taken up and thrashed out. It was settled then that the duty of all Communists was to be active in the unions. But So many of our party members have been engaged in the “mass work” of organizing and selling tickets for con- certs and dances that they have paid no attention to this fact. Win Organized Workers. Any member who is at all devoted to the party knows that it is imper- | ative to belong to a trade union in order that our party will.be able to conduct the work of winning the or- ganized workers for our party—for the proletarian revolution. Given this willingness on the part of the members it is only a matter of | routine until all our members will be- Tong to trade unions, However, this campaign to unionize | the party membership does not mean | that all of a sudden the party leader- | ship has become convinced of the} necessity of limiting our activity te raising the wages and fighting for better conditions for the workers. In other words, no concessions are being made to the backward craft union ideology of the trade unionists of this country. Our task is to destroy the trade union ideology of the organized workers and to convince and lead them in the struggle for power. For this purpose our members in the trade unions must be organized in Communist fractions inside the unions so that they can work in an organized fashion among the organized workers, A party fraction in a trade union is clusively composed of party members.| To carry on this work successfully The task of the fraction is to organ-| not only must we have our party mem | ize, develop and lead the entire Oppo- | bers in the unions; they must be or- SECOND TERM OF | WORKERS’ SCHOOL The Answell Bill A (Continued from. page 1.) officials at the place of entry. Neither a failure to register nor conviction thereof shall affect as continuance of the duty to or liability for violation of such duty, Register Once a Year gainst the Workers dismissed from any prison, asylum, or other jnstitution, the superintend- ent or keeper thereof shall report such fact... Raids and the Third Degree. “Sec, 17: The secretary of labor shall ‘be charged with the duty of the COMMUNISTS OF GERMANY FORCE A UNITED FRONT Compel 5; DB: Leadet to sition movement in the union. The | ganized in fractions within the unions. and brains of the movement against|ly with any prospect of success be- fraction must be the guiding spirit| These fractions cannot function open- | | “Sec. 3. Every alien subject to re-} 4 | sistration as provided in this act shall | {subsequent to his initial registration, Back Referendum proper enforcement of this act, For the purposes of this act the secretary Communist International the | the reactionary bureaucrats, and the capitalists. Utilize immediate Issues. In this country our task of winning | over the trade unionists is more dif- ficult than in any other country be- |cause the craft union psychology is very deeply rooted. Therefore the ne- |cessity of very cautious tactics for our work in the trade unions, We must recognize that the trade union- lists are very far from being Commun- lists, and approach them upon that basis, The point of departure of our work in the trade unions must be the im mediate issues confronting the work- ers. To them it does not matter how philosophical you are. You will gain their confidence if you are active in the routine business of the union as well as active when there is a battle on against the bosses. It is wrong to think that-we cannot |unite with elements in the union to jachieve some immediate aim unless |they accept the class struggle or re- fuse to fight for our full program. In this country we are at the very be- |ginning of our work in the trade unions and we must work with the material at hand. It is our task to develop the trade unionists and help them to become revolutionary fight- ers. It is impossible to conceive that by means of our propaganda alone that we will be able to revolutionize the trade unionists. The objective condi- tions of capitalism is the greatest fac- tor in this. The workers learn thru bitter experience, thru actually being drawn into struggle against the evils they suffer under—our propaganda becomes effective when it fits in with the experiences of the, workers, Develop Left Wing. For this reason our work™~in the union is not that of propaganda alone, or even mainly. Our task is the de- velopment of a movement embracing masses of workers who fight against the bosses and the bureaucrats who not an open organization—it is ex- TRADE UNION The class in Trade Union Organ- ization and Tactics, C. as teacher, the Chicago Workers’ School, 19 South Lincoln St., is grow- ing larger and larger. At its last meeting four new members joined the class. A debate which was held on “Piece- work vs. Week-work” was won by those workers who favored the week- work system. in the class are garment workers and are-very much opposed to the piece- work system so one can imagine how much consolation the defenders of the piece-work system received at their hands. The first part of this class is taken | up with an hour and a half discussion on trade union organization and tac- tics that left-wingers should pursue | in the trades unions. The second part of the class con- sists of short talks, and debates on various live issues that confront the workers in their unions. is made up of workers from many trades, among them the garment workers, the machinists, the typo- graphical and the barbers. The questions for the next lesson which will take place Thursday even- ing, Feb. 25, at eight o’clock at 19 South Lincoln St., are.as follows: Review Questions. 1. What are the aims and methods of the “socialist” unions? 2. Of the syndicalist unions? 3. Of “trade unionism” as repre- sented by the British and American anions? A. Hathaway} Most of the workers/ The class | Chicago Workers to Discuss World Court act as agents of the bosses. CLASS GROWS 4. What is the relationship of the Socialist unions to the Socialist par- ty? 5. What is the attitude of the syn- dicalist unions to political activity? 6. What is the program of the Com- munist unions and their relationship to the Communst party? New Questions. perialism on the relationship between the workers and capitafists? 2. What has been the effect within the working class itself? | 3. What is the role of the trade union bureaucracy? | 4. The “aristocracy of labor”? 5. What is the cause and effect of class collaborations? 7. Explain the rise and growth of 1. What has been the effect of im-| cause they are too weak, They must see to it that around themselves there is developed thru the T. U. E. L. an organization of non-party trade union- the bureaucrats and the leadership of the membership against the bosses, The program of such a movement is not the most important thing—what is important is the setting of workers interests whether they understand the implications of it or not, In the move- ment, in the struggle will come clarifi- cation of their ideology. lirected will bring us in touch with the organized part of the working | class, and will finally give us leader- ship over the effective portion of our class which is the first step toward our party becoming’a mass party and a party of the masses. Coming Struggles. Everything in the present situation boints to the fact that we are entering a period of sharp attacks on the standard of living of the working class aud their unions, The policy of the A. F. of L. leadership is to meet this attack by fine phrases about coopera- tion of capital andabor in eliminat- ing waste from industry and raising wages as production increases, This policy is calculated to aid the capital- ists in their attack against the work- ers. The unions are being turned into adjuncts to the efficiency departments of the exploiters. This menace to the wages and con- ditions of the organized workers is the ground upon which we must ap proach the workers to rally them for the protection of their interests. In leading the workers to fight for better conditions and wages we do not limit ourselves to that aim. But thru these | the workers are mobilized for the fight for power, We must work in the trade unions to mobilize the mem- ing organs of these immediate strug- |gles, and to win the trade unionists |for revolutionary struggles, TEN QUESTIONS FOR HISTORICAL MATERIAL- ISM CLASS IN CHICAGO Pages 33 to 67— Bukharin’s book: 1—Has man a free will? (Ex- plain determinism and indetermin- ism). 2—if a man has the choice of travelling two roads is he free to choose either of them? 3—Explain the difference in the will of the individual in capitalist society and Communist society? 4—Why do people make errors in drawing historical conclusions from the facts at hand? 5—Are we on scientific ground when we become morally indig- nant over the institution of slav- ery in ancient Greece? 6—Is there a contradiction inthe Communist affirmation that social- ism is Inevitable and the conscious organization of the working masses to overthrow capitalism and estab- lish socialism? the trade union left wing? The T. |U. B. L.? : | Ref€rences: Leninism: “Imperialism,” Chapters 7, 8 and 9. Lenin: “Collapse of Second Inter- national.” Lenin: “Left Communism” Chapter 6. Losovsky: “World Trade Union Movement”—Introduction, Chapters 1, 2 and 7. Gomez: Labor and Empire, Work- ers Monthly, July 1925. | Wolt: Economics of Class Collabor- | ation,” Workers Monthly January 19- |26 and March 1926. Foster: Trade Unions in America, |Little Red Library No. 1. Browder: Class Struggle vs. Class Collaboration, Little Red Library No. 2. “The World Court and Locarno” by H. M. Wicks, noted Communist will be the subject of a public lecture speaker and writer, at a meeting to be held on Thursday, February 25 at 8 p! m., in Northwest Hall, corner North and Western Avenues. lecture. Questions and discussion will follow the The meeting is being held under the auspices of Section 6, Chicago, of the Workers Party of America. participate in the discussion. THE NEW THE ‘ NAME STREET. All workers are invited to attend and 7—Are Christian Scientists right in their contention that mind is the only reality? 8—Are materialists gross volup- tuaries and idealists sweet-scented, self-effacing individuals? 9—Do different stages of social Production produce different theor- jes regarding society? 10—Explain dialectic materialsm? You do the job twice as well~ when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your | story in it. Women's Day Celebration in Chicago SATURDAY EVE., MARCH 6 at NORTHWEST HALL Cor, North and Western Aves. (3rd_ floor.) All friendly organizations are requested not to arrange other affairs on that day, RATES ——— C00 a year 6 3.50~-6 months 62.00 gel -$3.00 a year S450 6 months ins vom, SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD DAILY WORKER [! ists which will be the opposition to | into motion in defense of their class | Work in the trade unions properly | bers to make of the trade unions lead- | jregister once each following calendar | year.” You Pay for the Privileg& “Sec. 4. (a) Upon the initial re- 22.—Carl Brod-| istration of each’ alien who has jreached the age of twenty-one years, Ra Ine shall pay he officer registering him | Public Speaking Friday night at 8 D./g fog ‘of $10.00, and for each subsequent |m. in the Workers’ School, 108 E.14th| pegistration he shall pay a fee of| Many New Courses Fea- ture the Curriculum NEW YORK, Feb. | sky, street, thru which it is hoped to build $5.00.” }up a battery of speakers and propa- Follow-Up System |gandists for the coming congressional! “gec, 6. Whenever an alien per- campaign, has also offered to give a|manently removes from the district in jcourse in Elementary English to for-| which he is registered, he shall re- jeigners on Friday nights from 7 to} port to the Post Office of such district {8 p. m, As many students of the;and give such information in regard Workers School found the 8 o'clock | to his movements as “may be required | land 9 o’clock hours inconvenient be-|by regulation. He shall also within | cause they comflicted with union | two days after arriving in the district | | meetings or did Met offer the conveni-|to which he removes, report to post {ence of coming diréctly after work to office of such district and likewise those who live far from the central |give such information as may be re-{ school, this Friday night 7 o’clock|quired by regulation.” course in Elemefttary English should! No Freedom of Movement prove very popular. Other new! “Sec. 6 (cont'd) Whenever aad courses in English now starting in-| alien is temporarily absent from the clude: Elementaty’ English, Monday istrict in which he is registered, he night at 8 o’clock;/Intermediate Eng-| Shall report at such times and places | lish, Tuesday night at 8: Advanced |#d give such information in regard English, Wednesday night at 8; Inter-|t© his movements as may be re- mediate English, Wednesday night at| Wired by regulation.” 9; Blementary glish, Thursday | aes (7) Duplicate records shall} night at 8 j made of the registration of each) The course in Workers’ REG (i and a certificate of identification | & x i \in such form as the secretary of la- ence (proletarian journalism), EN or may prescribe shall be issued to has proved so valuable and popular, will begin a second term next Monday | sos ons sage a ‘ ys if | Th Y Up Ai here! night in which the old students will Oy SN SLE ceoe, UP aaa epee: ‘i “Sec. (8) Every alien shall on de- e continued and new registrations | mang at any time exhibit his certificate | will be taken. It should be the effort| of identification to any agent of De-| of every shop nucleus and every union partment of justice or of the Depart- fraction to have at least one represen-| ment of Labor, to any state, terri- tative in the Workers’ Correspond-| torial or local police or peace officer, ence course. and to any other officer designated Large List of Subjects. | by the president.” During the following week, many} Photographed and Finger- printed. additional new courses. will begin.| Sec. 10. Bach record of registra- | Monday night, 9 o’clock, Modern His-|tion and certificate of identification |tory of the American Working Class, shall contain, a) a photograph of uni- | instructor, Solon die.’Leon. Tuesday | form size and style as prescribed | |night, 8 he Leninism, instructor, | DY Tegulation to be supplied by the| 9:30,10ur Work ‘in the | Person registered, and an impression |Trade Unions, sinstructor, J. Zack.|Of bis finger prints; b) the signa- | Wednesday night,:8 o'clock, Leninism, | jture or mark of such person and c) instructor, Bert Wolfe; 8 o'clock and) the following information in regard " fi {to such person. First full and cor- Deeley aan + rouesaeey. tn rect name and all other names by siete ied Sahib sieyeinel| 9:30) whieh such person has at any time o'clock, Leninism;j instructor, D, POO ncn wows either in thé. United oe Gretarg might, 8 pclock. | |States or elsewhere; second, sex; heaps Yarn 9 i‘ Took. Aacanceg (ent nationality and race; fourth, ’ 4 Fundamentals of @bmmunism, instruc- ee ee Eee eee oer | birth; sixth, physical description in-| tor, Jack Stachel: giclock, Advanced | cluding height, weight, complexion, | Marxian Eoononmg » instructor, J. color of hair and eyes, and any other ae 9 rae Eatrran Sociolosy | distinguishing marks or identifica- ‘volution of jety), Instructor, tion; seventh, whether married or Geo. Siskind; 9 o/lock, (on alternate single, and if married or the head of Thursdays) Shop,#Nucleus Training a family, the name of husband or Course, instructor, Jack Stachel. Fri-| wife, children and other members of day night, 8 o'clock, Modern Litera- family, the ages of each, and such ture, instructor, Eli Jacobson; 9 further information in regard to the o'clock, Social Psychology, instructor, | registration of each as may be pre- D. Kvitko. ‘scribed by regulations; eight, resi- The fee for any ‘of the above courses | dence; nineth, last previous residence is $2.50 for three’ months. Registra-| within the U. S.; tenth, last previous tions are being tdken now. |residence without the U. S.; eleventh | Occupation; twelfth, name of employ- Pittsburgh W. P. School \omeeee oe i eg Kalter round to Hold Celebration | Pseegyrth gen Swe Neg arn |may be prescribed by regulation. The local party school and the Young Peagraihinyls Seah oc on ron Workers League will celebrate the | of the information contained in the {eight anniversary of the founding of | record.... the Communist International, on Sa- | turday, March 6th, at 8 p. m., at the| International Socialist. Lyceum, 805 James St., N. S. There will be a splen- did program with speakers who will | explain the problems of the workers and the relation of the Third Interna- tional to their immediate problems. Arrangements are also being made to show the three reel] Lenin funeral film, Watch this paper for further details. | Bert Wolfe; PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 22 — The Card-Indexed. Sec, 11 (a) The original record of| registration of each alien shall be re- tained and filed in the post office of the district in which he is registered. The duplicate record shall be “filed in a central office as provided by regula- tion. (b) There shall be entered on the original and duplicate records of registration of every alien: (1) A report of all arrests or con- victions of such alien and the charges upon which such arrests were made or convictions obtained together with the final disposition of each case and (2) any other information, as speci- fled by regulation, bearing upon the fitness of such for citizenship. The secretary of labor may request the co- operation of all federal, state, territor- ial, or local courts and police and peace officers in making such reports. For Wholesale Jailing, “Sec. 13: Whenever, in the judg- ment of the president, ‘the interests of the national defense so require, he may by proclamation require all or any part of aliens required to be re- Walter Trumbull, recently r d |gistered by this act to report at such from Alcatraz after serving a sen- (time and places as he shall fix. tence for Communist activity in Boarding House Spy System, Hawaii, at the railroad station and “Sec. 15: Whenever the proprietor Friday evening, March & to greet /or keeper of any hotel, lodging house, and hear Trumbull at the North | or boarding house knows or has rea- Side Turner Hall. There will be |sonable cause to believe that any per- other speakers on the program. json in his employ is an alien, such Robert Morse Lovett, Ralph Chap- | proprietor, keeper, or cistege shall lin and Max Shachtman are among |report such fact or belief, and the those on the list of speakers, exact time or arrival or beginning ot employment to the post office or other proper authorities of the dis- trict in which the hotel, boarding house, lodging house, or place of abode is situated... “Whenever any alien is about to be FREE LITERATURE SUPPLIED, MILWAUKEE, ,, Wis. — Free copies of the YOUNG, WORKER, Tribuna Robotnicza, Pravda, and Honor and Truth, can be secured from Frank Milder, 821 Clylesurn St., Milwaukee, CHICAGO |. L. D. 10 GREET TRUMBULL ON MARCH 4TH AND STH id reserve Thursday evening, March.4 to greet YOU WANT A GOOD BOOK? You are sure to find it at Telephone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Surgeon Dentist 249 East aie WY Stn Cor, Second Ave. RK CITY tna sean 8 ty 12 A. M.; 2 to 8 P, | Provision of this act or of any regula-| | done by this act or by any regulation jute nothing, according to information |dam headquarters of the International | Bristol, of labor or any inspector or other per- son duly authorized by him, shall have authority to enter any place in which he knows he has reason to believe that any alien is present, and to de-| mand of any person any information| necessary to carry out the provisions | of this act and to arrest or detain any| | person who refuses to give such infor- |mation. Any person so refusing entry | |words and range their or information is guilty of a violation of this act. “Thé secretary of labor may employ such assistance for the purpose of en- forcing this act as may from time to time be authorized bY appropriation in this or any other law, $5,000 Fine, Jail; Deportation. “Section 20: Whoever (a) violates | any provision of Section 8, 9, 18, 14 or 15 in this act or (b) fails to report as required by a proclamation made under Section 13, is guilty of a misde- meanor punishable by a fine’ of ‘not more than $100 or by imprisonment, and whoever, (a) violates any other} |tion (b) makes any misrepresentation | |or false statement in or relation to| any act or thing in ‘required to be or (c) counterfeits or mutilates orf, unless in the course of his duties un- der this act alters or destroys any record of registration or certificate of identification issued under this act is | guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000 or {by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. Failure to make any report required under this act shall constitute a separate offense. | Any alien who is sentenced to im- | prisonment, for a violation of any provision of this act shall upon the | (termination of such imprisonment be | | Immediately taken into custody and | deported.” Hungarian Rulers Have Money to Kill Workers; None for Unemployment (Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—Hungary | is at last to have unemployment in-| surance, but the state is to contrib-| sent to Washington from the Amster- Federation of Trade Unions. Work- jers and employers, under the Hun- garian scheme, will contribute equally to the fund, which will give aid to the amount of one-half the. normal | wage. The Horthy government is| the only one in Europe except the Mussolini government of Italy that| refuses to contribute to unemploy-| jment funds. Nothing is available for| social purposes from the Horthy bud-| get of 700,000,000 geld crowns. U.S. Admiral Reports Tariff Dispute with Turkey Is “Settled” CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb, 22. — A commercial agreement between the| Turkish government and the United States has been concluded whereby) American goods will be admitted into Turkey at a minimum tariff, Admiral commander of the American near-eastern fleet, announced upon his return from Angora. The agree- ment will be effective fora period*of six months. This agreement settles for a time the Turko-American difficulties over the tariff questions which began when the Angora government arbitrarily im- posed an impossibly high tariff against American goods. The tariff was with- drawn temporarily on condition that the United States make efforts im- mediately to conclude a commercial treaty with Turkey. Get your tickets now for the Inter- national concert of the T..U. E. L., Sat., March 13, at 8th St, birt The organizational structure of 15 Cents material compiled briefly on portant subject, 15 Cents pallgpecial Rates relings nt So eg 4 The Movement for World Trade Union By TOM BELL. (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Feb, 22,—The demand put forth’ by the Communists for a refer- endum of the people on the question ef compensation for the expropriated properties of the ex-kaiser and his torde of minor German imitators, princes, dukes, etc., etce.—has com- pelled the leaders of the social-demo- eratic party to swallow their own organization behind“the scheme. Thus a united working class front has been obtained as thru the same kind of pressure the General Federation of Labor has also given its backing, Bitter Feeling Among Workers. The measure will now come up in parliament where with ‘the joint sup- port of these two parties who have a very large proportion of the total membership, it stands.a good chance of passing. The feeling among the workers and even a considerable sec- tion of the middle class and profes- sional groups is so bitter on this pro- posal to hand back to the old regime hundreds of millions of dollars, that enough votes are almost certain to be won from wavering members of other parties except’ the most extreme right. | This is particularly true as the vote to ‘permit the referendum does not neces- sarily involve the approval of its ob- Ject. The Russian Method Much Cheaper. The former kaiser has the colossal nerve to demand almost $300,000,000 besides his present allowance of about $12,000 a month. The rest of the no- bility want to be restituted on a cor- \responding scale. Many of their de- mands have been granted by the Prus- sian government, a coalition of social- democrats and centrists (catholics), or by the courts. Indeed, the servile social-democratic leaders have been compelled to give up their projected sabotage of the plan thru a referen- ‘dum allowing compensation for the expropriation only by the mass pro- tests within their own rank and file and the labor organizations. For this agitation the Commynist Party of |Germany is responsible. Its result, a united front forced from below, is bound to have most important results {in the class struggle of this country soon. Panama ‘War Games’ Are Sure Win for the Army and Naval Leaders PANAMA, Feb. 22 The “war game” which has been going on off the coast has ended in the theoretical destruction of the navy and army air stations at the Atlantic approach to the Panama canal, General W. H. Martin, commanding the garrison, states the test has shown the inade- quacy of the defenses, These “games” always occur about the time the army and navy chiefs want a larger appropriation from con- gress, One or the other of the two departments—with the air, a third—is bound to win, If the air fleet is vietor, ergo the guns at the canal are not of | long enough range, more anti-aircraft guns must be installed, etc. If the defense wins, the weakness of the air squadron or of the battle fleet has been disclosed. “Heads I\ win; tails, you lose.” The militarists are always victors. FRAME-UP OF MINERS WILL BE SUBJECT AT 1. L. D. MEETING TONIGHT Tonight the Northwest 1. L. D. will hold a special meeting in the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. to make preparations for the wel- coming of Walter Trumbull, recent- ly freed from a California prison. Alex Reid will be present to tell of the latest development of the Zel- gler miners’ case and of the Lewis betrayal of the anthracite miners, Organization With an Introduction by JAY LOVESTONE, the American Communist move- ment; Constitution of the Workers (Communist) Party—Shop Nuclei Plan—Charts, ete. a Copy. UNITY es Facts—figures—all the most exhaustive a most im- Some THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W, Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ml.